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- November 2022 (Revised October 2023)
- Teaching Note
Driving Decarbonization at BMW - Teaching Note
Teaching note in support of the case "Driving Decarbonization at BMW" (HBS No. 123-008)
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Keywords:
Decarbonization;
Environment;
Sustainability;
Carbon Accounting;
Carbon;
Carbon Abatement;
Electric Vehicles;
Automobiles;
Transportation;
Environmental Accounting;
Accounting;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Supply Chain;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Climate Change;
Transportation Industry;
Auto Industry;
Germany;
Europe;
China;
United States
- 14 Dec 2022
- News
Nature-based Carbon Removal: DroneSeed’s Reforestation Model
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
manage a food distribution company and an agricultural investment fund. “Many global experts have underscored that this pandemic is a 12-18 month battle and that we can expect future pandemics and shocks related to climate View Details
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Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for...
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- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
property technology for the Built World. The firm’s Climate Tech fund looks to invest in technologies built to help the real estate industry reduce its carbon footprint to zero and adapt in the face of a View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
HBS has achieved approximately $300,000 in annual operational savings and earned $330,000 in rebates and grants from utilities and from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The projects have also offset HBS’s greenhouse gas emissions — the main human-produced...
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- April 3, 2023
- Article
Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Stefan Reichelstein
E-liability accounting is a new technique that will help customers factor in a product’s environmental footprint into their purchasing decisions and will help create a competition dynamic that leads to reduced carbon outputs. This article describes two pilot studies—by...
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Kaplan, Robert S., Karthik Ramanna, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 3, 2023).
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work,...
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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Climate change will affect everything businesses do, as government efforts to mitigate carbon emissions cause their prices to rise steeply. This special edition of Forethought takes a hard-nosed look at the...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
Environment Club and the Sustainability Club to meet fellow classmates with similar interests, deepen my involvement in helping advance the climate change conversation at HBS, and connect with like-minded...
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Keywords:
Energy / Cleantech
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
first semester, I joined the Energy and Environment Club and the Sustainability Club to meet fellow classmates with similar interests and deepen my involvement in helping advance the climate change...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
one-third overweight, the sick care system (it has nothing to do with health) can't keep up. The fix for this is in the realm of public policy. In a country where one of the major political parties denies climate View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 2023
- Working Paper
Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management
By: Robyn C. Meeks, Jacquelyn Pless and Zhenxuan Wang
This paper examines how digitalization impacts public service provision through a study of the U.S. power sector. We exploit the staggered timing of electric utilities’ investments in “smart” meters and find that electricity losses per unit sold decrease by 3.6%. This...
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Keywords:
Electric Utility;
Energy Management;
Smart Meters;
Energy;
Climate Change;
State Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Technology Adoption;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Meeks, Robyn C., Jacquelyn Pless, and Zhenxuan Wang. "Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management." MIT CEEPR Working Paper Series, No. 2023-22, December 2023.
- 01 Jul 2000
- News
What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
optimism were New Jersey Senator and former Goldman Sachs co-head Jon S. Corzine, and Ernst & Young chairman James S. Turley. In assessing the current business climate at the Restoring Confidence in American Business conference at...
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by Catherine Walsh
- June 2024
- Case
Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project
By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries...
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Keywords:
Climate Change;
Environmental Regulation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Resources;
Natural Environment;
Weather;
Sustainable Cities;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Construction;
Property;
Infrastructure;
Capital Budgeting;
Projects;
Project Finance;
Negotiation;
United States;
Maine
Ruback, Richard S., Matthew Preble, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 224-735, June 2024.
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
many factors including technology, climate change, demographics and inequality. Such extreme change is throwing up unprecedented opportunities and creating an ‘adaptive challenge’ for individuals,...
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- Profile
Micah Macfarlane
market failures for climate change but less response from society. "We are just worse at thinking about climate impacts, which feel further away than they really are. I...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
and do their homework," he says. Roberts says he hopes to do more to get the US government out of gridlock and into the fight to save the world from climate change and resource depletion. "We're running out...
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